Homebrew PCBs

You may want to check out the news group that cadsoft maintains. Go
to 
http://www.cadsoftusa.com/forum.htm 

Anything I have not been able to figure out in the manual or help I
have always found in the forum archives. 

Not trying to discourage you from asking questions, just letting you
know where I go when I have questions.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "joshdewinter"
<joshdewinter@y...> wrote:
>   Thanks a lot Robert.  So thhhhaaaats what that Net class menu is 
> for!  
>   I don't mean to flood the group with questions specific to a
layout 
> program, but everyone here is so good.  I hope more people can 
> bebefit from these.  Maybe I'll make a little mini-tutorial as an 
> alternative for newbies like myself who find software manuals to be 
> kryptonite once I get everything figured out.
>   
>   I've got another one.  I just dug a hole I can't figure out how
to 
> get out of...I noticed something in my circuit I wanted to change, 
> yet I was already routing, so I stopped the autorouter in
mid-route.  
> I then removed a component from my schematic.  After that, I
noticed 
> the router was still half-done, so I went back to the board and
told 
> it to "End Job".  When I did, it somehow magically replaced the 
> component I had just removed, restoring the board to the way it was 
> when routing had started, but here's the bad thing...the component 
> was still missing from the schematic.  I then promptly got the
error 
> message that the schematic and boards didn't match, that no 
> forward/backward annotation would be allowed, and that my first
born 
> children would be found and executed.  Okay not really...just the 
> first parts.
>   I noticed though that the part it replaced wasn't wired up (when
I 
> say "wired up", I mean it didn't have the straight little yellow 
> unrouted lines between it and the other components it should be 
> connected to).  When I went to the schematic and replaced the part, 
> then went back to the board, it still wasn't wired.  So, I deleted 
> the component from the board and the schematic.  I then replaced
the 
> component with a brand new one on the schematic, BUT, and here's
the 
> bug butt, it nor any others will show up on the board now.  (It was 
> serious about the forward/backward annotation thing).  How do you 
> restore that function once you've gotten it out of sync?
> 
> Thanks a million again
> 
> Josh DeWinter
> Pullman, WA